Whether presenting a project at school, delivering a critical report at work, or simply trying to make sense of your budget, graphs are efficient and visually appealing means of conveying complex ...

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The ease with which you can create a line graph in Excel on your PC or Mac will do much to dispel the misconception that the program is arcane and unapproachable. With just three clicks of a mouse (or ...

Using Microsoft Excel you can create charts based on the data and formulas entered in a worksheet. Enter a sample range of numbers in Excel as if you were at an event asking people their ages, for ...

One option for sharing reports with your team is to simply rattle off numbers. Think something like this: "We allocated 10% of operating budget to maintenance, 15% to hardware upgrades, 18% to ...

Bar graphs are graphical representations of statistical data in the form of strips or bars. This allows viewers to understand the difference between the various parameters of the data at a glance ...

A cumulative average recalculates a data set's average as new data is added. During the recalculation all data contained in the data set is included in the average. In Microsoft Excel your spreadsheet ...

Is your chart boring? Try Excel’s people chart to liven things up. Susan Harkins shows you how. A people chart is an infographic, which leads me to a second definition. An infographic tells a story, ...

Viewing the distribution of related values from one entity to another is a frequent request, and that’s where Microsoft Excel floating bar charts can help. Instead of starting from the X axis, the low ...

If you do not want to move a chart while changing the width of the cell, you can lock the chart position in an Excel spreadsheet with this guide. Although the chart moves as per the cells’ width and ...

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